Fatto matematico: 966 is the Stirling number of the second kind S(8,3).
Trivia: 966 is a number for which we're missing a fact (submit one to numbersapi at google mail!).
Data storica: August 23rd is the day in 1994 that Eugene Bullard, The only black pilot in World War I, is posthumously commissioned as Second Lieutenant in the United States Air Force.